PS4 system update 1.70 launches today – full feature list

Plus, new updates for PS Vita and PlayStation App detailed

At PlayStation, we love hearing the great feedback we get from our passionate community of gamers. That’s why I’m excited to announce that our highly-anticipated system software update for PlayStation 4 (v1.70) will be released today, with a huge number of your demanded features, and expanding upon what we believe is the most socially connected console experience.

One feature that I’m most excited about is SHAREfactory, our new rich video editing app. In addition, we’re launching updates for PlayStation Vita (v3.15) and PlayStation App (v1.70) that will deliver greater integration with your PS4 system.

Here’s a rundown of what you can expect with today’s software updates:

PlayStation 4 v1.70 update

SHAREfactory: After you update your PS4 to v1.70, an icon to download our free SHAREfactory app will appear on your PS4 system’s home screen once it’s available. Once installed, SHAREfactory allows you to easily customize your gameplay videos with special effects, video commentary with picture-in-picture capability through PlayStation Camera, and custom soundtracks using the included audio tracks or your original music imported from a USB drive. You can then share your videos on Facebook or export them to an external USB storage device. The app is packed with plenty of cool, but accessible, tools. It’s simple enough to use for beginning editors, while functioning as a rich video editor for those with more creative aspirations. Check out our new SHAREfactory video above that provides a walkthrough of what you can expect:

Automatic pre-download: You’ll soon be able to start downloading select pre-ordered games from PlayStation Store. This new feature allows you to get to your games faster by automatically downloading select pre-ordered games up to several days in advance of the release, so that it’s ready to play as soon as the game is released on launch day. There’s also a countdown timer prior to the release of the game so you’ll know how soon your game will be available for you to start playing.

Option to disable HDCP for games: This highly requested feature will allow you to have the option to turn off HDCP for games so you can capture longer gameplay sessions directly from your HDMI output and export them elsewhere.

USB export option for captured gameplay: It’s now even easier to show off your heroic gaming moments and the SHAREfactory videos you create with the world using this feature to export your videos and screenshots to a USB drive. Just click on the DUALSHOCK 4 SHARE button, save your gameplay on a USB drive, and then share your proudest achievements on other social networks and other video platforms.

Live broadcasting in HD and archiving support: We’ve increased the resolution for live broadcasts so you and your friends can watch games livestreamed in 720p HD. You can also archive your broadcasts on Twitch or Ustream and watch them again later.

New SHARE options: We’ve got a number of new SHARE settings that will give you better control of what you want to share with your friends. Here is what you can look forward to:

Change the default gameplay recording time in the SHARE menu under Video Clip Settings.

Save only the video clips and screenshots you want by selecting Upload Screenshots or Upload Video Clips for each capture. Also upload video clips and screenshots during your live gameplay broadcasts.

New DUALSHOCK 4 options: New light bar settings have been added for DUALSHOCK 4, allowing you to change it to Bright, Medium or Dim in the Settings menu. The touchpad has also been updated, allowing you to navigate the on-screen keyboard using the DUALSHOCK 4 touchpad.

New Friends options: It’s now easier to find Friends and send requests with the ability to search Friends-of-Friends, view Mutual Friends on another user’s profile, and accept Friend requests directly from the Friends list.

New Trophies sort option: You can now sort Trophies by rarity in the Options menu.

More PlayStation Camera commands: More voice commands are added to PlayStation Camera, allowing you to launch the apps installed on your PS4 with the sound of your voice.

New PlayStation Plus icon: For Plus members, you’ll now have the PS Plus icon appear next to your SEN ID on the login screen, home screen and other areas across the PS4 system’s sleek user interface.

Music Unlimited SHARE options: With a Music Unlimited subscription, you can easily share your favorite songs with your friends by pressing the SHARE button on your DUALSHOCK 4.

PlayStation Vita v3.15 update

PS4 Link update for Remote Play: Linking your PS4 and PS Vita together will now be easier with the 3.15 update for PS Vita. It’ll enable Automatic Device Registration, which will automatically detect and pair both systems when they’re both online and the same user is signed in to both devices. This makes it even quicker for you to get started on Remote Play or access other second screen features.

PlayStation App v1.70 Update

Push notifications, friend requests and more: This new PlayStation app update will give you the option to receive Push Notifications for select PS4 updates you want to receive, such as gameplay Invitations, Game Alerts or Friend Requests. You can also receive Friend Requests via email or text messages with the app update. Also, it’s now easier to change your profile picture right from your mobile device by uploading an image from your photo library, or taking a photo using your in-device camera.

We can’t wait until the software updates are released so you can start enjoying all of these great features. In particular, I look forward to seeing your SHAREfactory videos and seeing all the creative ways you can make your gameplay moments memorable.

Let’s keep the conversation going – we love getting feedback from you and seeing what else we can come up with to continue making PlayStation 4 the best place to play. Please let us know and we’ll continue to always serve up great content and features to you – the gamer.

Ha, came here specifically to complain about how there is still now multiple account support on Vita. Glad to see I’m not alone there! But while I’m at it, I also want to throw my hat into the “no download management on PS4″ ring. Both these features should have been patched in by now. Come on Sony, loving my PS4 and Vita, but it can be so much better with just a couple of small tweaks.

The rest is nice although some I saw no one request and I think effort could have gone in those most requested because they make life easier (like deleting trophies, sorting download lists, streaming media and more).

Absolutely no way that that will ever happen. Would be stupid of them if they did. They are doing Playstation Now, if they allowed you to use old disks on your Ps4 they would loose out on a lot of money.

Since there are already unofficial PSX and PS2 emulators on the PC (x86), doing the same on the PS4 is definitely possible. I remember playing GT2 on bleem on a P200MMX with 16MB Ram and a Riva TNT2. So if that old thing could run PSX games, for sure the PS4 won’t have any trouble.

I believe that when Microsoft was faced with this problem from Xbox -> Xbox 360 they checked on Xbox 360 that disks were valid and then downloaded xbox 360 compatible files from online. This way even on Xbox 360 you could play Xbox games.

This way there is no need to do actual emulation but just use native binaries that utilises PS4. Of course with special hardware like what PS2 and PS3 has this is not quite trivial to make. Also PS4 controller is a bit different from PS1/2/3 times. So something special would need to be done for missing buttons.

Great progress. Thanks guys. One question though. Did you guys manage to fix game recording not the last 15 minutes but sometimes 1 hour or 2 hours earlier footage? This happenes a lot in BF4 and happened to me twice with Killzone.

THIS. this always happens to me! Picture the scene. Dead nation final level. Morbid. My co-op partner dead. I’ve used literally everything I have so i’m left with the rifle to get through the final area with all the army guys. I do it. Raise arms triumphantly in the air. YES!!! Hit the share button and its some boring bit from like 2 hours ago. What the hell?! every damn time!

Are you seriously saying that we still don’t get notifications when our friends sign in and out?
And we still can’t use the basic sorting options that we had on PS3?
Come on… It’s been 5 months with the PS4 now, how hard is it to patch in those features?

yep. apparently, removing HDCP is a priority. it probably affects less than 1% of the base. but, youtubers have a loud voice and get their demands met first.
regular gamers don’t care about HDCP. it doesn’t affect us at all.

That’s because gamers are silent to the public. Youtubers are able slag PS4 to the world, any video footage that didn’t use the ‘un-orthodox’ method of getting HD recorded footage looks s***e. Sony don’t don’t want XBox users p***ing themselves laughing.

Plus, anyone not in the know would watch the XBox vids and non-HD PSx vids and promptly buy an XBox.

Public image and Marketing/Sales ploy I’d say.

I assume that user MP3 playback is sandboxed to SHAREfactory so I’m suprised native MP3 (license has to have now been paid to include it in SHAREfactory) & 3D Blu-Ray playback aren’t supported yet (not for me, but for others), especially Blu-Ray.. It’s Sony’s invention for crying out loud!

@Tip-120B I can play my Blu ray DVDs, so I think you can too, if not well some of us can. I’ve not tried 3D yet but I was watching Lost on my TV & PS4. Not sure if it tells my mates I’m watching a film though.

One little thing annoys me with the PS4. The notification section seems to display all these things like last trophy earned, friends added, messages received e.t.c. But you can’t delete them. They just hang there even after you have actually viewed the trophy won, deleted the message that had been received or added the friend that had requested. So now I have out of date notifications from February that don’t even link to anything.

Will we have the ability to delete these soon like we can with the whats new section for played game notifications. Like I say it’s only small thing in the grand scheme of requests from 7 million users, but it seems there are many little problems like this. Such as being able to sort the games on the UI, better trophy sorting, and mentioned previously in another post, the friend notifications when they sign in and out. Simple things that could be fixed quite easily.

I have a horrible feeling it will be only for the purpose of share factory, and that actually playing music on the PS4 may come in the next update, with the rumoured music player. Let’s hope it’s not another 5 months to wait I guess.

This is brilliant. But please bring back media playback, Give us a media playback app or something. Video playback is more important.

At the very least increase the number of different codecs the browser can handle if you don’t want to give us standalone a media playback app. Give us flash, AVI, DIVX, MPEG, MKV support.

MP4 playback already works beautifully through the browser. But ultimately I wish to playback the videos and mp3/flac I have on my hard drive.

If media playback is brought back i can finally retire my PS3. PS4 will become the ultimate games and media machine.

[General point i want to make regarding PlayStation marketing:

YouTube compression is awful and destroys the details and fidelity of the trailers and content uploaded by the marketing team. So upload uncompressed or atleast high bitrate [16Mbps] HD video to VIMEO [classy version of youtube, doesn't heavily compress video] or Gamersyde[enthusiast site that prides itself on providing uncompressed videos, via bit torrent to reduce server load], and then link them as an option in the description of the youtube upload]

Trophy sort options from ps3 and the abilty to sort by platform PS3, 4 & Vita a thumbnail view option would be nice also (hate lists), friend notifications, prioritise downloads, video and music file support from ps3, option to hide downloaded games off the homescreen (hate all the apps shuffling), youtube and twitch app…Update to the browser less of the ‘ missing plugin’ or PS4 not supported……Fantastic Update guys!! SHAREfactory looks amazing! But with all the hype surrounding this update i was hoping for at least half these things.. Sorry to be that guy but…..

Thank you for bringing us this meaty update Sony. A couple of suggestions for future updates if I may? 1. Being able to sort game & apps into folders, the UI is starting to get cluttered now and it will only get worse in future. 2. An option to upload videos straight to Youtube, also I think Instantgram should be one of the options to SHARE photos. And finally 3. A dedicated Twitch & UStream app, there’s various people who’s streams I would love to watch but because there mostly PCs I ain’t able to seach for them. Also I think with E3 coming soon, publishers may broadcast their conferences on these sites so it would be wonderful for who can’t go to be able watch all the going ons at E3 & Gamescom too.

So in other words Sony has failed to address the small issue that is, the New Zealand store doesn’t allow for pre-orders making the pre-load feature redundant. Gee thanks Sony! Maybe next time you’ll address that small issue amongst the ridiculous overpriced games in store. Kiwi’s are getting ripped off so badly at present.

Make a UK account, or a US account [much cheaper games]. top up your wallet by buying psn top up cards from amazon.com [us account] or amazon.co.uk [uk account]. Or other companies that email you the psn card redemption code.

There is no region lock on PS4 or PSN so after purchasing, you can then log in to your NZ account and play with that.

We always get ripped. it comes with the territory of living in god’s pimple. We payed another $US 120.00 equivilant more than they do in EU/US for our PS4s.Even buying things like Lego sets from Amazon is cheaper even after the postage than getting it here and the Hobbit first movie CE was a whole $US70.00 cheaper from amazon in US than getting it here after postage. Even games cost less for all of them. I want an EU passport.

these are all features making me use my PS3 a lot more than I’d hope to be using it. More use = channelling a little more cash into it in the long run, I and so many people like us would be satisfied with video, image and audio playback libraries such as what we had on PS3. Still, looking forward to 720p live streaming and using the video editing, it does the Share button even more justice ^_^

While this is awesome news for my PS4 my PS3 is crying. My storefront is crying. I still can’t browse the classic ps2 section, if it wasn’t for my Vita still being able to browse it, downloaded Grandia today <3, I would probably be a giant beardy man crying as a 2 year old who dropped his ice cream…please tell us anything about the situation Sony :*(

I sadly sold my PS3 for my PS4, something I deeply regret. Had I of known 6 months ago the gap I would have to bridge in technology, I certainly would of kept it. I miss 3D playback, CD Playback, MP3 playback, viewing photos, the list goes on.

The PS4 is an incredible machine in my opinion, but I wish I still had the PS3 sitting next to it at the moment. I can’t help but wonder how long it will take Sony to make the PS4 equal, or surpass the PS3.

Can someone confirm that the share bug is fixed or not, in this update? i’m talking about when you hit share after more than 15 minutes of play it’s random what 15 minutes it actually records. Is it even acknowledged by sony that it exists? – because if it’s still there these new share additions seems like a waste really. I would like some clarification as i have stopped using share because of it’s inconsistency (a shame as i love the feature).

Sharefactory sounds good, now I just actually need to be able to share. I don’t use facebook and my laptops USB ports no longer work. Is there any possibility of uploading to Youtube sometime in the future, or do Microsoft have some exclusivity agreement to prevent this from happening? The PS4 has has a very strong start but Microsoft seem to be the only ones listening to their customers at the moment. If this isn’t possible maybe you could let us reassign the share button to something useful.

Youtube is a google owned property, whilst i know everyone including SONY want youtube to happen for uploaders, its quite obviously more complicated than simply just putting out the application.
The share button is perfectly useful, just because you don’t use social media, and have not looked after your laptop resulting in broken ports don’t
mean its useless.

It’s no good for me, I’m happy for everyone else who will find this useful, I really am. Just because I asked to reprogram a button to do something useful, doesn’t actually mean it’s original function was useless, this is an assumption made by the reader. For the record, I have looked after my laptop, it’s called general wear and tear over many years, and the most basic input socket on any of my equipment is the power socket. All I’m asking for is options when uploading instead of one site. If Sony can’t make a deal with the largest video sharing site in the world, when the competition can seems odd. Thats not to say they are not excelling in other areas. But my opinion must be wrong because it doesn’t match anyone else’s riiiiiight….

Saying you want to reprogram a button to something usefull does indeed imply that the function it currently has is useless, don’t try to make yourself seem smarter than you are. Regarding options, exporting to usb gives you a local file to take to your computer and then you are basically able to upload it whereever you want, that is the definition of giving us options to upload
btw. you should take more care of your computer, i have never had a usb socket that didn’t work, and it seems like they are pretty hard to break…

Just because you misinterpret what I wrote doesn’t make it so I’m afraid. But by this logic, you seem to be personally attacking me and calling me dumb. I’m not going to reduce myself to name calling, I am above that. I didn’t realise that upload options would require additional hardware and time, I thought the PS4 would have been doing the sharing for me and not having to export it to another device first. It would be nice to have game clips I upload show on the whats new tab too. And well done with never breaking a USB port, there are many people who have never broken one, thats not to say that some don’t break after many years use.

I never called you dumb nor did i imply it, in any way. You said that the share button needs to be reprogrammed in order to be useful… that can only mean you think it’s useless right now, this is not misinterpretation, this is just you not being clear enough with your statements.
It’s a shame you think it’s hard work to export the video’s to an external device, it really does open up more options for sharing than having local sharing only would ever give you.
And no, usb ports don’t usually break after years of usage, unless it’s in a really poorly built device, like low-low-end.
But anyway, you should really buy yourself a new laptop, should be useful in any case, and just export clips to usb and you will never use local sharing again, i know that i won’t even if youtube sharing does come.

The phrase “don’t try to make yourself seem smarter than you are” to implies stupidity to me and I took it as a personal attack, however, I’m willing to accept you meant nothing by it. It’s easy to be misinterpreted eh? I simply mentioned reassigning the button to something useful without saying it’s current use was not in fact, useful. My usb ports are broken simply because the metal terminals have worn down though lots of use (I had a job once that required me to use several usb devices though-out the day several times), thats what happens when metals rub against each other several thousand times, it eventually wears out. I would love to buy a new laptop, and even considered it at one point but it was either that or the PS4 as I’m not a wealthy person by any means and the PS4 won. I also don’t think its a bad thing being able to export, I have even mentioned I am happy that it is there. I like the idea of instantly being able to pause a game, edit a clip with basic functions and upload it to youtube and have it show on my PSN friends “Whats new” tab, then carry on playing. I simply commented here to give Sony MY opinion on what I would like, not for it to devolve into an argument about my computer or the manner in which I express my opinions. For that reason, I won’t post any more replies or come back here to check for any as this could go on forever. I hope you can see where I’m coming from.

Great update! I have some feature requests:
1. Use the Playstation App as a remote for bluray-movies and internet-browsing (Would be awesome!).
2. The ability to add web-apps to the home-screen (Youtube TV, Headweb etc..).
3. Media Center features (The PS4 has the needed specs).
4. Skype- or Google Hangout-support.
5. More accessibility features (screen reader, zoom etc. Also in games).
6. Improved and faster browser with support for plug-ins.
7. Voice commands in more languages.
8. Improved navigation on PS Store (Right now it is very confusing and difficult to use.)

love your list, did you ever see the PS3 store at launch? believe me the PS4 store is a god send lol

My List of wants>

1, Ability to appear offline
2, PSN ID Name Change
3, MP3 Playback within game and on broadcasts.
4, Ability to have my party chat group audiable on my stream
5, Pause Downloads
6, Media Server Support.
7, Only show recently accessed games on the home screen. EVERYTHING appears on it ATM making the Library area useless. Say accessed in the last 7 days.
8, 3D Bluray Support.

My list is more along the tweaks, everything is there it just needs the options.

are you sure with the plugins for browser? its like it would give more access to hackers and the next thing we will need will be virus scanners why dont you use youre pc or ipad/android tablet/pad for this?
I can agree with the rest specially number 8 TO SLOW by the way on ps4 its not so confusing maybe because ps4 plus is always empty and it confuse you LOL We dont get anything on PS4 with our PLUS Except 1 lousy game or should i say special produced ( BONE FOR DOGS )

Cool update But nothing major i wanted tho really Like MP3 playback(+ Photos & Video Playback) and DLNA and Folders and Save gameplay directly to YouTube + a few more. Hopefully we don’t have to wait another 5 months to get them to?

@ Andrefpvs
Why not the games which are above 0%, where you think the game is rubbish and never plan on playing it again? It just gets in the way and takes longer for the trophy list to sync and load.
If messages couldnt be deleted, would you also say only the blank ones should be able to be deleted?
It makes no sense.

@fps_d0minat0r
If you could delete actual trophies, you would be able to doctor your profile. For example, one could delete every trophy list where they weren’t able to achieve 100% completion and BAM — instant gaming legend that has completed every game they have.

Nice update, but still lacks some features. The maximum players in a party chat is quite low and should be increased up to a minimum of 10 people. Also a message to say whether your friends are online or have gone offline which ps3 and xbox 360 had, where did it go?. Also when inviting people to party chat, its quite annoying that you have to add each person individually then send the invite, when you could just add everyperson at the same time and then send the invite. All these little features are making the ps4 look bad compared to xbox one and I know some people believe they have wasted their money and should’ve bought the xbox due to those little features.

We dont need a higher player count for the Partys. 8 is enough. But we need a better Audio Codec for Party Chat.
Makes the PS4 looking bad? The Xbone OS is awful and more complicated to use. Inviting people to a Party on the Xbone is not easier lol

Thumbs up for the addition of new light bar settings. Now if only the light bar will fade in and out to indicate charging when you are playing a game. It does that, but only when your PS4 is not doing anything. If you are playing a game, there is no indication. I imagine it is done this way so that a game that’s actually using the camera to read the light bar will not be confused, but for games that do not use this feature (ie. 98% of the games), I don’t see why it cannot show charging in progress.

Great update with nice features but the PS4 is still missing many things I’d like to see

1. Ability to change PSN ID’s *(HUGE One for me and probably many others)
2. Add music to the PS4 from a external drive and listen while playing
3. Friends coming online and going offline notifications
4. Notifications for when friends start playing the same game you’re playing
5. Time since a person last signed in (Like the PS3 does)
6. Better management of what’s downloading (Pausing/Stopping current download)
7. Better management of apps/games on the home screen
8. More apps. Youtube, Twitch etc.

That’s what i can currently think of off the top of my head.
Keep up the amazing work guys.

1. Agreed, I made my PSNID a while ago, and I’m starting to dislike it, this ability would be greatly appreciated.
3. Agreed, the PS3 had this feature, why doesn’t the PS4? (This can be said for a lot of this list)

Won’t happen. It was something that was advertised on an announcement video for the Vita and 2 years later it still hasn’t appeared on it. There is no way they would go to the effort of integrating their own music service just to undermine it by allowing users to use their own alternatives. Doesn’t matter what is said or implied on social media by them.

It needs the ps3′s media playback feautures& support for old turtle beach wireless headsets i.e the px3′sbecause at the moment even with the chat cable it still has trouble picking up background audio when playing games this is the same for all the old turtle beach wireless headsets so an update is needed